October 2013 – September 2014
NHRD Bangalore
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
Content
1.
Monthly Meetings:.......................................................................................................................... 3
2.
Special Initiatives: ........................................................................................................................... 7
Academia-Industry Connects: ............................................................................................................. 7
Short to Mid Term Development Programs: .................................................................................... 10
3.
Cluster Meets: ............................................................................................................................... 11
4.
SIGNATURE EVENT ........................................................................................................................ 12
5.
National Chapter Events supported at Bangalore: ....................................................................... 13
6.
Highlights: ..................................................................................................................................... 13
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
1. Monthly Meetings:
Highlight: We have a 1 hour showcase of relevant practices / solution providers prior to select
monthly meets. It is well received in the industry.
SJ
No.
Date
Program / Initiative
Panelists
01
26th Oct
India's People Agenda - 'Hear
the Country's thought leaders'
Discussion with Krishna Kumar – CEO and
Meena Ganesh (Founder and MD of Portea
Medical, K T Chandy (partner EY), Alok
Nanda (Business Leader at GE Aviation),
Vishal Talreja (Co-Founder and ED - Dream a
Dream), Vikram Rai ( Co-Founder Sattva
Media)
We also wanted HR Folks to do something
innovative, hence organized a knowledge
sharing session about Wine Tasting
02
28th Nov
A showcase of Bangalore's
best CSR practices and a panel
discussion on the role of HR in
the new CSR Bill
03
19th Dec
Wine Tasting and Stand-up
Comedy
Attended
by
approximately
150+
MD at Mindtree and chairman of
Nasscom, Prof. Rishikesha Krishna –
Professor at IIM Bangalore, Author and
Srivatsa Krishna – IT BT Secretary
250+
100+
THE SILVER JUBILEE YEAR PROGRAMS
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 3/25
Date: 29th January
Topic: Dialogue on THE ORBIT-SHIFTING MOMENT- New Conversations, New Directions
Facilitated by: NHRD Bangalore and Erehwon for the January Monthly Meet
Approximately Attended by: 175+
Erehwon released their book about Orbit Shifting Innovation.
The panel comprising P M Vasudevan (Equitas), L.R. Natarajan (CEO,
New BD, Titan), Sunil Dutt (Former Samsung), Atul Bindal (Former
Airtel) discussed about how inclusive growth can be brought about
by paradigm shifting movement in Innovation.
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 4/25
Date: 27th February
Topic: Corporate Governance - What we need to know and how can HR contribute
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore
Approximately Attended by: 150+
Vasanthi Srinivasan (IIMB) led the discussion with CK Venkatraman (CEO Titan
Jewellery Division), Padmanabhan (Dep. Counsel General and Head of
Compliance and Dispute Resolution - Wipro), Jitendra Chaddah - (Director of
Strategy and Planning - Intel). The panel illustrated the importance of ethics
and governance at workplace and the role of the organization leaders in
creating a culture of governance.
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 7/25
Date: 27th March
Topic: Life at Amazon
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore
Approximately Attended by: 150+
Sharad Sharma (Former Yahoo) and Harish Devarajan (Former Unilever) engaged Amit Agarwal (VP and
Country Manager Amazon India) and Raj Raghavan (HR Leader India) in an insightful conversation about
Organization Building, Culture and Employee Engagement. While Sharad Sharma shared his experiences
while at Yahoo, Amit was candid about how the culture of allowing people to experiment and take risks,
encouraged him to lead the India Operations after 2 decades at the Organization.
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 8/25
Date: 24th April
Topic: Employer Branding
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore with Carpediem
Approximately Attended by: 170+
There was a showcase from organizations about best practices in Employer Branding followed by a
research update by Randstad about Employee Engagement. Tarun Kochhar’ (Carpediem) moderated
the dialogue between Nikhil Indrasenan, Sandeep Krishnan, Nihar R & Rajiv Krishnan about the
practices of Employer Branding.
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014

SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 12/25
Date: 29th May
Topic: Wellness at Work
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore
Approximately Attended by: 170
There was a showcase from organizations and solution providers with unique wellness initiatives
followed by a panel that discussed passionately about the responses from employees towards
wellness programs in organizations.
Vishal Bali (former Fortis and now Founder of Medwell Ventures) engaged Kovaichelvam (TVS
Motors), Srivatsan Aparajithan (Vidal healthcare), Venkatesh (AOL), Tarun (GE) in a conversation about
trends in employee wellness and what the companies need to do.
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 14/25
Date: 26th June
Topic: Integrating Technology, Social Media and Community in Learning Organizations
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore
Approximately Attended by: 175
Abhijit Bhaduri and his team comprising Dr. Mrityunjay, Tanaz and
Vishal Shah shared with the NHRD audience how they had been
integrating technology, social media and community at Wipro.
Prior to this discussion, NHRD Bangalore had organized a showcase of
organizations that provided differential technology based learning
solutions to the corporate and academia.
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 15/25
Date: 31st July
Topic: Cricket and Leadership
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore
Approximately Attended by: 175
This was a block buster monthly meet with a Cricketer, Corporate Leaders, and Authors who had
drawn analogy between cricket and management and Cricket Enthusiasts.
Sudheesh moderated a discussion with Mohandas Pai (Chairman of Manipal Group), Javagal Srinath
(Former Indian Cricketer and Arjuna Awardee), Giridhar (Registrar of Azim Premji University),
Raghunath (consultant at Azim Premji Foundation) and Dev Prasad (Senior Engineer at Bosch ltd.)
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 16/25
Date: 26th August
Topic: The Myth of Assessments – Psychometrics Revisited
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore
Approximately Attended by: 170
Another well attended session with 3 expats (2 settled in India)
discussing about the myths of psychometrics and other forms of
assessments.
There was a showcase followed by a panel discussion.
Madan Padaki (a serial entrepreneur) engaged the panellists
- Andrew Warren Smith (CEO – DDI), Mellissa Ferrier (YSC) and Valerie Gray (Talent Makers) about the
evolving space of assessments.
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
2. Special Initiatives:
Academia-Industry Connects:
Collaborative seminar with the Indian Academy of Management Studies on 25th and 26th April
I.
II.
Joy of Giving Program (Shadow the HR Leader) – Oct 2013
28 distinguished HR Leaders from Bengaluru city volunteered to share their
valuable time with 32 select HR students. It is very notable gesture on part of these
leaders to embrace the joy of giving real time experience at their work locations.
We had 45 nominations from several B-Schools, from Bangalore and Mysore. 32
students were selected by NHRD Bangalore through their statement of purpose,
telephonic and face-to-face discussions. The Joy of Giving kick-started on Oct 1st
and spread over the month for about 13 working days.
Project Swayamvar: January 11th 2014: Free Registrations
Up to 130 students and 15 companies participated.
50+ students were selected for internship projects
through Swayamvar this year as compared to 20+
students during the previous year. This year the
initiative was led by NHRD Bangalore student
council.
III.
Research Forum:
IIM- Bangalore: Organized a research forum on ‘Social Media, Big Data and Innovation’ on
15th March in association with Nasscom and NHRD Bangalore
IV.
Step-up Program: (Free)
Free industry ready workshops conducted to help students transition from campus to
corporate. 895 students have been covered in 9 institutes in 35 sessions from Oct 2013 to
May 2014.
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
V.
TRIADS:
TRIADS is designed and operated by NHRD Bangalore over 8 years, evaluating
contribution to the Academic Full time HR projects of MBA students in
Karnataka through an annual contest that recognizes the best participants
from students, academic institutions and company guides in projects. The
contest is applicable for Full Time HR Projects as per the academic
requirement.
In 2014, we had 12 institutions participating with 32 HR projects.
Following were the 3 winners:
Prize
1st
Student Name
Roshini K
2nd
3rd
Project Title
Development of Framework
for New Team Orientation
B-School
SJCBA
Pranav Sukhija
Employee Satisfaction of
Pilot Salesmen
NMIMS
Nandita Prabhu
Review of Policies and
Benefits
XIME
Organization
Fidelity Business
Services
Gujrat Cooperative
Milk Federation
(Amul)
Philips India
Faculty Guide
Prof. Rashmi
Nakra
Corporate Guide
Prof. Sandeep
Rao
Hardeep Singh
Banga
Prof. Sumathi
Akshay Wadhwa
Tushar Sharma
*Best Faculty Mentor: Prof. Vinayak Bhat, Christ University
Best Corporate Guide: Nakul Charekar, Fidelity Business Services
Nakul Charekar
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
VI.
Student Connect Programs:
Student Connects are being co-hosted with identified B-Schools (in turns) every month.
Students lead this initiative. Following are the student connects conducted from Oct 2013 to
Sept 2014.
Month
Oct-13
Nov-13
Dec-13
Jan-14
Topic/ Initiative
Blue Ocean HR Strategies to
create Business Value
Proposition
Jack of All - Master of none,
HR Generalist - Myth or
Truth
How responsible is HR for
work-life balance of
employees in the
Organization?
Leveraging HR Technology
in Human Resource
Management
Speakers
Host College
Organisation
represented
Kumar Krishnaswamy
Don Bosco
Fortis Health
Care
Sanjay Srivastava and
Hirendra Badhiye
ITM
AstraZeneca
and Northern
Trust Bank
Pankaj Pipariya and
Prasad
Venkat Krishnamurthy,
Shobhana
AIMS
IBM and Misys
CMRIT
Smartplay and
GE
Thomas
Assessments,
Coach and
Consultant, HR
Annexe
Mar-14
Psychometric Tests and the
Business Connect
Prahlad Rao, Harish Vittal
and Joseph Paul
BNMIT
Apr-14
‘Kurukshetra’ HR Debate
Contest
Ranjith Jose and Shonet
Saldanha
ISBR
May-14
HR : Fostering Innovations
Dayanand Guddin
Jul-14
TRIADS Contest
General
Aug-14
Causing Increments' - a
workshop for Students
Prof C Balaji
Sep-14
Role of Mentoring in
Organizations
Rupali Rane and
Hemachandra
Sambhram
College
Multiple
Christ
College,
Kengeri
Campus
IBA
Cisco and AT&T
Mahindra
Aerospace
Multiple
Former
Symphony,
Founder
Partner CIP
Fortis Health
Care and Max
Hyper market
Practice area
within HR
Innovation
HR Business
Partnering
Employee
Engagement
Technology and
Change
Psychometrics
Employability
and Stickiness
Innovation
HR projects
Performance
Mentoring
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
Short to Mid Term Development Programs:
a. Faculty Development:
NHRD Bangalore in collaboration with Canara School of Management
conducted
an
exclusive
6-weekend program from 14th December
2013 to 1st February 2014 for HR faculty of
Bangalore University.
25 HR Faculty went through the program. The program was
inaugurated by Prof. Pankaj Chandra of IIM-B & the valedictory address was given by Dr KRS Murthy
(former Director of IIM B) & Mrs Sujatha Balakrishnan.
b. Fast Track HR Professionals’ Development Program:
NHRD Bangalore initiated this program in the year 2008 for HR professionals. 80+ mid to senior HR
Professionals have benefitted from the program so far. The 5th batch of the program was conducted
in collaboration with Welingkar Institute of Management. The fee was highly subsidized to Rs.
16000/- per participant. There were 15 participants from various industries. Senior HR Leaders/
Subject Matter experts facilitated the sessions with zeal. Following is the design of the 17 weekend
program from May 31st to 28th September:
A peep into self (Self Awareness)
Workshops
Competencies and Business (workshop)
Field Visits
GE
Organization Structures
Situational Leadership
Bosch
Transactional Analysis workshop
Pegasus Centre for Excellence
(Assessment and Development
Centre)
Titan
Interactive Sessions
Workforce Planning
Change Management in Merger
andEngagement
Acquisition (during
Employee
M&A and
transitions)
Leadership
Development
practices
Application of HR Analytics in
Organisations
Project Evaluation Discussions
Inclusivity and Diversity workshop
Causing Incredible Performance
(workshop)
HR Metrics
Concept
Case Study (Talent Planning)
Role of HR professionals in Mentoring and
Counselling workshop
Total Rewards (Comp and Benefits)
Performance Management workshop
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
3. Cluster Meets:

In our effort to take NHRD to the doorsteps of the HR Professionals and to celebrate our
Silver Jubilee, we created 4 clusters in Bangalore. Each cluster is led by a Senior HR
professional volunteer.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Embassy Golf Links & Central Business District (EGL and CBD)
Electronic City & Sarjapur (E-City and Sarjapur)
Peenya & Manyata Tech Park and
Whitefield & Outer Ring Road
Most of the events have been in collaboration with other Organizations. Here are list of Cluster
events organized:
Sl No.
Date
Program / Initiative
Facilitated by
Attended
approximately
01/25
20th January
DNA of Leadership
Conference Board, NHRD and Wipro
- E-City Cluster
100+
2/25
22nd to 25th January
Un-conference
Conference
Board,
Bangalore, CBD Cluster
NHRD
100+
5/25
28th February
State of
Workplace
NHRD
with
– Whitefield Cluster
Gallup
80+
6/25
27th February
NHRD
with
– CBD Cluster
Lease
20
9/25
16th May
National Employability –
Through Apprenticeship
Program
Creating
a
smarter
Workforce
NHRD in association with IBM, Glenn
Dittrich - EGL - Cluster
22
10/25
19th May
Leadership that Matters
16
11/25
21st May
Theatre Based Learning,
Workshop
13/25
30th May
Evolving Gender Roles,
Identities and Values
17/25
5th September
18/25
5th September
Developing
Senior
Leaders – An approach
that really works
The Future of Corporate
Education
NHRD in association with DDI, Dr.
Richard Wellins - Peenya / Manyata
Cluster
NHRD in association with Schneider
Electric and Maynard Leigh
- Whitefield Cluster
NHRD and Starbucks (Ira Trivedi,
Monisha Srichand, TGC Prasad &
Nirmala Menon)- CBD Cluster
NHRD,
Infosys
BPO
and
McKinsey & Company – E-City
Cluster
NHRD – Indo American Chamber of
Commerce (IACC) – CBD Cluster
the
Global
Team
80+
30
60+
175+
Collaborations include:
Conference Board | Gallup | Team Lease| IBM | DDI | Starbucks | Schneider Electric | Infosys BPO |
Indo American Chamber of Commerce | Maynard Leigh
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Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
4. SIGNATURE EVENT
 SILVER JUBILEE YEAR Event: 18/25
Date: 19th and 20th September
Theme: 3rd NHRD-TITAN HR Showcase
Facilitated: NHRD Bangalore with TITAN and other sponsor organizations
Approximately Attended by: 1500
The showcase is a signature event was conceptualised and conducted by the NHRD Bangalore.
Category
HR Best Practice
HR Research
HR Start-ups
Registrations
99 practices from 50 organizations
29 from India, Pakistan and
Australia
30+
Finalists
35
8
13
Following are the award winners:

HR Best Practice:
Organization
M/s Exide Life Insurance
M/s Kids Clinic India Pvt Ltd.,
(Cloudnine)
M/s Lupin Ltd.,
M/s Schneider Electric
M/s TVS Motors
M/s Vindhya E Info Media Pvt
Ltd.,
Best Practice Title
Stretch - Culture Survey & Change Management
Birthing and Beyond
Learn and Earn
Campus Program Management Process Innovation
Salesforce Competency Development
Dhwani
The People’s choice award was bagged by M/s Lupin Ltd., Since Lupin had received an award for HR Best
practices, the team graciously volunteered to share the award with the next most popular company - M/s
Sapient Ltd.

HR Research:
Author
Biju Varkey & Rupa Korde
Mohan Thitte, Pawan
Budhwar & Adrian
Gopakumar M.G

HR Start-up:
M/s JOMBAY
Research Paper Title
Gender Pay Gap in the Formal Sector: 2006 - 2013
Global HR Roles and Factors influencing their
development: evidence from emerging Indian IT
services multinationals
Network effects on team performance: The effect of
deep diversity
Events and Initiatives from October 2013 to September 2014
5. National Chapter Events supported at Bangalore:
Sl No.
Date
Program / Initiative
Facilitated by
01
19th February
20/25
26th Sept
National Conference on NHRDN
Shared Services (BPO/ITEs)
Engaging the 21st - Century BIMTECH - NHRDN Round Table
Workforce:
Talent
Acquisition and Access
Attended
approximately
150+
180+
6. Highlights:
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Collaborative Programs with National / International organizations and speakers of eminence
Showcase format introduced in monthly meet to advocate best practices in the ecosystem
Clusters formed to take NHRD to doorstep of the HR professional
The Advisory Board meets the Executive Committee once in 6 months and participates actively
in all endeavours of the Chapter
Faculty Development Program conceptualised and first batch successfully conducted.
NHRD Bangalore Student Council was conceptualised in 2012 and has been engaging the student
fraternity.
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